ABSTRACT
On 17 September 1989 under the headline 'Britain's War in America, The Washington Post reported its discovery of a top secret British document that revealed Sir William Stephenson's alleged manipulation of the US media during the Second World War. The story seemed to confirm a claim made in the best-selling A Man Called Intrepid that there existed a major private archive of materials detailing British intelligence activities in America in the 1940s. The document in question was described as the official history of Stephenson's wartime organization, British Security Co-ordination (BSC), which operated from New York as the directorate of all forms of British clandestine activities in the Western Hemisphere —covert operations, counterespionage and intelligence collection — between 1940 and 1946. The Post quoted a British intelligence expert, who asserted that this 423-page report was 'one of the most astounding documents in history'. 1
